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This category indexes the neuroleptics: the medicines whose defining use is the treatment of psychosis, grouped above by generation. The boundary is that action against psychosis, however the individual medicine achieves it. | This category indexes the neuroleptics: the medicines whose defining use is the treatment of psychosis, grouped above by generation. The boundary is that action against psychosis, however the individual medicine achieves it. | ||
Several neuroleptics are used well beyond psychosis, and are cross-indexed accordingly. Many of the second- and third-generation agents are central to the treatment of bipolar disorder, in mania and in depression alike; some, quetiapine among them, are used at low doses for sleep or for anxiety; and a few first-generation phenothiazines, prochlorperazine in particular, are used more often as antiemetics than as | Several neuroleptics are used well beyond psychosis, and are cross-indexed accordingly. Many of the second- and third-generation agents are central to the treatment of bipolar disorder, in mania and in depression alike; some, quetiapine among them, are used at low doses for sleep or for anxiety; and a few first-generation phenothiazines, prochlorperazine in particular, are used more often as antiemetics than as neuroleptics. Following the wiki's multi-membership convention, a medicine is indexed wherever its pharmacology and its uses warrant. | ||
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